[Magdalen] RIP Ali, 74.

[Grace Cangialosi]

Oh, I think I did, too.

> On Jun 4, 2016, at 6:54 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry I misspelled Muhammad Ali's first name. I had it right to begin with,
> but then looked up a news story, probably the only one on the planet that
> had it wrong.
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Nicely put, Allan. Thank you.
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You yourself have stated that his baptism made him "Christ's own forever"
>>> in spite of his later conversions to the Nation of Islam and then to
>> Sunni
>>> Islam.
>>> 
>>> That notion imples a slavery to Christ that Ali twice repudiated. From
>> that
>>> standpoint, Ali was quite right in calling "Cassius Marcellus Clay" his
>>> slave name. It has nothing to do with history.
>>> 
>>> When I was accepted into Zen and given my new Buddhist name, Taikan, my
>>> Zen teacher gave a talk to the assembly on how honored he was that
>> someone
>>> he knew to still be a Christian had accepted Buddhism from him.
>>> 
>>> I have never forgotten that whole hearted acceptance of me, just as I
>> was.
>>> You might try the same with Mohammad Ali (Praised One).
>>> 
>>> On Saturday, June 4, 2016, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','magdalen at herberthouse.org');>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> However, the implication that his Christian name was a slavery name
>>>> and that Mohammed Ali is his "free" name doesn't match history on
>>>> the subject of African slavery.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> David Strang.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Allan Carr
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Allan Carr